UNUM RELIQVIA

As a branch... Reliqviaderives from the Latin verb relinquo which means "I leave". The Latin term reliquiae si in Greek λ epsilon; ίψ α ν α, is generally understood as "what remains", referring to the human body or a part of it. By this word in a Christian context we are talking about a part of the body or an object that belonged to Christ, the Madonna or the mortal remains of those who are recognized as martyrs and saints and, more generally, those objects that have been in contact with their person. The new perfume by Filippo Sorcinelli, after paying homage to Mario Giacomelli with " I have no hands to caress my face " , returns to Senigallia to describe a simply extraordinary place, rich in history and works of art, but a great custody of the important relics of the Passion of Christ: the church of the Cross, considered one of the jewels of the Italian Baroque. This oratory, dating back to 1608, was built by the will of the Confraternity of the Sacrament and the Cross that still functions today and of which Filippo is a member with specific functions of organist and artistic director. Reliqvia talks about the walls dressed in gilded wood, finely adorned with sculptures and reliefs, it talks about the steps carved towards the great high altar, like a gold embroidery, where inside is kept the statue of the dead Christ, a wooden work from the seventeenth century. century and visible only once a year. But he also wants to frame the altar of Federico Barocci, the Transport of Christ to the Tomb, one of the most beautiful works of the painter Urbino executed in 1582, and for which he also designed the frame. Reliqvia is therefore a meeting place to recall memory, to remember the time that passes and becomes solemn and authentic gold, a message of corruptibility and incorruptibility. Reliqvia is the concrete trace, the last trace, to describe in life an existence above us, different and prodigious. It is the closet that is always closed, the precious custody of sacred people that makes us understand that time is precious and that it risks being consumed without letting us leave a clear trace in life. Reliqvia is the nail of the Passion, stratified and peaty incense of solemn and sacred years. There is no sacred, if the people of the sacred do not recognize it as such and elevate it in perfect rites. Reliqvia is the perfect space of the sacred. Touching the relics, touching something that was in contact with them is a grace and a guarantee: for this reason the Romans broke the waves that had covered the holy martyrs and in which the bodies of the popes were wrapped. For this reason, the popes were enveloped in those waves. In the presence of the relics, the lame are healed and the possessed and possessed are released, the blind rediscover their sight, the lame begin to walk again...